Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 33: The Fall of the Dwarves, part 1
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...—26th January, E643 | Dwagnowa, Dwarf Kingdom—...
DAMAI is a very distant word to describe the atmosphere in the modern capital of the dwarves. Busyness, noise, and panic are sweeping through the most advanced city in all the cities of Iceland, and even the world. There are no civilians outside the home. Markets closed. No shops are open. Only the soldiers were busy pacing back and forth, as well as the technicians who were busy preparing the royal magic weapons.
However, compared to the atmosphere of the city, the situation in the palace was even more uncontrollable. The throne room was filled with angry cries of the king. Ministers blame each other. Dozens of soldiers have been lying in blood, killed because they are not good at work. Gozilla Titanous Gazoa is absolutely wrathful.
The reason for this is only one: the building of a technology center, research, and experiments have been infiltrated. Most of the weapons have been destroyed. The Vegasus ship's mock project, Damocles, is one of the few cutting-edge technologies that can no longer be used. The combat power of the Dwarf Kingdom had been reduced by more than half without the presence of their proud technologies.
“Where is Khrometh?” ask the king who has calmed down and sits on his throne. “Why hasn't he arrived yet?”
The ministers were silent. The soldiers standing guard immediately moved the corpses of the useless soldiers the king had killed.
“Why silence? You guys are stupid now? Or, you suddenly become deaf? Need to ask the soldiers to cut off your ears to replace the new one?”
“Yes-Your Majesty, we have asked three soldiers to call Mr. Khrometh. Ka-We are sure he is already on his way here.”
“So? Then I'll wait. If Khrometh does not return for half an hour, all of you will be sent to finish off the bastards who dare to show off the troops before my kingdom.”
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Khrometh was just about to enter the capital gate when suddenly an explosion echoed from behind him. Instantly he turned around. And immediately the former Deus Guardian member was silent with wide eyes.
The explosion came from where his private headquarters were located. The scale of the explosion was huge. Even from where he stood, Khrometh could see the peak of the explosion that continued to climb as if reaching the sky. The hills there were mostly gone.
Both of Khrometh's hands were clenched, his teeth were grinding. Without a second thought, he immediately shot towards the explosion.
“Mr Khrometh! Your Majesty called for the Master!”
Khrometh paid no heed to the frustrated cries of the soldiers. He doesn't care a bit. Khrometh coated his body with mana, darting at full speed towards the base he had already built with Stakhneth.
At full speed, Khrometh arrived there in just a dozen minutes.
What he witnessed instantly caused Khrometh's fury to explode. There was nothing left of all his creations and Stakhneth besides the giant golem—his first superior creation with his partner—whose body was emitting smoke. Other than the golems, everything was destroyed unformed. Flat with a hole of melted soil as if watered by dense lava.
His brother's body also disappeared.
“ARGHHHHH!”
The angry cries of Khrometh echoed filled the air. At a certain age, Khrometh was never angry until this.
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“How much longer until we can launch Vermillion Demolisher again?” edelweiss asked his captain who was in charge of the armament of the Vermillion Neva— Ship at the moment they were at a distance of two thousand meters in the air.
“New energy recharge ten percent. It took another three minutes until the Vermillion Demolisher could be fired. Wh why? Commander wants to flatten Dwagnowa too?”
“Commander! Ma’am!”
"—gnowa. Huh, what's up, Captain?” Edelweiss's views moved on to other captains. “Why are you panicking?”
“There are objects approaching from below. It looks like a golem. Chances are he's aware of our whereabouts.”
“Although we are in invisible mode?”
“Ma’am, command!”
“Forward! To the skies of Dwagnowa! We laden the golem there.”
“Siap, Ma’am!”
The Vermillion Neva's ship shot unstoppably towards the skies of Dwagnowa. The golem was indeed a fierce pursuit, but its speed was inferior. The golem was left behind. And, in just a few seconds, the Vermillion Neva Ship had appeared exactly 2000 meters above the royal palace of the dwarves.
“Ma’am, we give a warning or directly attack?”
“Destroy all four city gates as a warning, after which I will give them ultima—cih! The golem has arrived. Everyone, total assault mode! Captain Carera, prepare an emergency teleportation. 5 percent of our ship is damaged, we go straight back to Nevada.”
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“Mampus you guys, motherfuckers!” maki Khrometh once two explosive missiles shot out from both index points of his golem.
The speed of the two missiles was faster than the speed of his pride golems, but the legendary dwarf still had to swallow the pill annoyed. The damn ship—which is clearly visible as a clone of Damocles—manuccessfully stopped both explosive missiles. Two purplish bubbles trap the two missiles and melt them before they explode.
Khrometh was grieving, spontaneously activating the golem attack mode which he had changed its name to Agravain since his last modification half a century ago. The five-meter-tall giant golem instantly took out a pair of black-colored dragon wings with red edge lines. The “halo” ring floating on his head shimmered brightly. All the weapons in his hands, arms, and body were shuffled out.
Khrometh did not have time to move his golem to start the attack in attack mode. The enemy ship has launched a barrage of energy lasers and explosive balls. Khrometh controlled his golem deftly, avoiding the barrage of lasers and explosive balls.
Occasionally Khrometh forced his golem to maneuver in mid-air, trying to land a counter-attack. However, enemy ships are more nimble and highly skilled. His speed was also something that fed up the dwarf. More than that, the ability of the pilot deserves a thumbs up. It was like there were several people moving the ship at once.
A laser hit the left side of the golem's abdomen that Khrometh controlled. However, the dwarf was not emotional. Instead, he grinned. In addition to the golem defense is very high, Khrometh managed to use the laser earlier to make his golem circling like losing control. The goal was not to relax the vigilance of the ship, but to catapult the golem higher into the air.
Khrometh managed to catapult his golem into the air after releasing three laser waves simultaneously. It was now hundreds of meters higher in the air than the enemy ships. It's his chance to make sure his opponent gets hit, and Khrometh won't miss a chance.
“You will perish in perdition,” whispered Khrometh while uniting all the firing points of his weapon, making energy gather at one point in front of the chest of the golem. “Vanish in all helplessness, Agravain Apocalypse!”
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“Ma’am, we are slowing down! Time slows! The radiation waves of energy the golems release make the reactor where it heats up. We'll explode in thirty seconds, Ma’am!”
“Captain Carera, activate emergency teleportation!”
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Buaaaam!
A huge explosion instantly engulfed the entire sky of Dwagnowa. The explosion was quite loud, hot, and it reached a distant area. It was like an incandescent ball being crushed in the middle of the air. The majority of the buildings were destroyed by the shock effects that the explosion caused. The walls of the city even destroyed half of its upper half.